Bobbie Burgers
Upcoming Exhibition: Montecito & St. Helena | September 9 - 30
Opening Reception & Artist Talk | Montecito
Thursday, September 10 | 5 - 7pm
Opening Reception & Artist Talk | St. Helena
Saturday, September 12 | 4 - 6pm
"For much of my career, flowers have been the foundation of my work. They have served as subject, structure, memory, metaphor, and point of departure. Over time, however, the flower has undergone a gradual transformation on the canvas. What began in the recognizable language of floral painting has slowly opened, loosened, and dissolved. Petals have become gestural brushstrokes, stems have become lines, and blooms have become fields of color and layered media. This has never been a sudden turn toward abstraction, but an evolution shaped by years of repetition, material exploration, and an enduring fascination with the imperfect beauty of flowers as they bloom, fade, and decay.
I am drawn to this continual process of transformation because it reflects both the natural world and our own human experience. Through painting, collage, and layering, each work carries traces of those that came before it, evolving through cycles of renewal and change. While my work remains rooted in the tradition of florals, it is no longer bound by it. As the paintings have become more abstract, they have also become more open, inviting viewers to bring their own memories, emotions, and interpretations. I hope these works suggest that beauty is not something fixed or delicate, but something living, layered, imperfect, and constantly becoming." - Bobbie Burgers
Biography
For more than two decades, Bobbie Burgers has developed a distinctive artistic practice rooted in the flower as both subject and metaphor. Largely self-taught, her work has evolved from representational floral painting toward increasingly abstract compositions, expanding the tradition of floral still life through expressive gesture, layered materials, and vibrant color. Drawing inspiration from the traditions of Dutch still life and Chinese painting, Burgers approaches flowers as a means of exploring memory, transformation, and the passage of time.
Flowers have long served as the foundation of Burgers' work, gradually transforming from recognizable botanical forms into expressive fields of color, gesture, and layered media. Rather than a deliberate shift toward abstraction, this evolution has emerged through years of experimentation, repetition, and material exploration. As flowers bloom, fade, and decay, they become powerful metaphors for impermanence, resilience, and the emotional rhythms of human experience.
Central to Burgers' practice is an ongoing cycle of renewal. Paintings generate imagery that is revisited through collage, drawing, and subsequent works, creating a continuous dialogue between past and present. Each composition carries traces of those that came before it, allowing forms, colors, and ideas to evolve organically while balancing delicacy with force, restraint with excess, and beauty with grit.
While rooted in the tradition of floral still life, Burgers both honors and challenges its conventions. Dense layers of paint and collage fragment, enlarge, and obscure familiar forms, revealing flowers not as delicate ornaments but as resilient, unruly, and deeply expressive subjects. As her work has become increasingly abstract, it has also become more open to interpretation, inviting viewers to bring their own memories and emotions to each painting. Rooted in the enduring language of florals yet no longer bound by it, Burgers' paintings embrace beauty not as something fixed or fragile, but as something living, layered, imperfect, and continually evolving.
Burgers lives and works in Vancouver, where she teaches at the Gordon Smith Foundation. Her work has been exhibited internationally at galleries, museums, and art fairs and is represented in numerous public and private collections.
Born
Vancouver 1973
Selected Corporate Collections
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Toronto, ON • Fraser, Milner & Casgrain LLP, Edmonton, AB • Global Affairs Canada • Manulife Financial, Toronto, ON • Weber Shandwick • Thorn Mark Investments • Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, Canada • Lawson Lundel Lawson • Sutton Place Hotel • Pen-Cor Mortage and Investments • Royal Bank of Canada • Scotia Mcleod • Nordstrom’s, New York City • Liquidity Wines • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto, ON • Vancouver General Hospital • Thornmark Asset Management Inc., Toronto, ON
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 Lightning Running Through,Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
Chain Reaction,Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Assembly,Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2025 Iterations,Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Enfleurage,Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
A Feverish Dream,Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA
No Dress Rehearsal,Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson, WY
2024 A Window or A Mirror, Equinox Gallery, Toronto, ON
Time Flows Through Narrow Spaces, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, Montecito and St. Helena, CA
2023 Winged Victory, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
Partly Truth PArtly Fiction, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2022 Forest for the Trees, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
The After Party, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Between Always and Never, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
Transcribing the Elements, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
2021 The Hard Work of Spring, West Vancouver Art Museum, West Vancouver, BC
Storms & Calm Waters, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
Folding Outwards, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2020 The Tender and the Unnerving, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
Papier Contenporary Art Fair, Montreal
2019 SCOPE Miami, Caldwell Snyder Gallery
Maximalist, Minimalst, Caldwell Snyder Gallery. St. Helena
Fragile State, Equinox Gallery. Vancouver
Harmony Arts Festival, Ferry Building Gallery, Vanouver
Art Toronto
2018 Perception of Sound, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Art Beijing
Art Toronto
2017 An Outline Broken, Cohim Gallery, Beijing, China
Art Toronto, Toronto, CA
Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Impure Crystals, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2016 Bitter Sweet, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
2015 Innocent Disobedience, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Seeds of Rebellion, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.
A Beautiful Rebellion, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
The Quiet Revolution, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
2014 Suspended Between Sweetness & Sorrow, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
Lovely Fugitive, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.
The Lure of Magical Thinking, Bau-Xi, Vancouver, BC.
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
Stories That We Tell, Couture Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden.
2013 Days of Dreams & Visions, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Respire, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Alchemy, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
An Involuntary & Unconscious Memoir, Galerie St. Laurent & Hill, Ottawa, ON.
Eternalism, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA.
2012 Wanton, Wild, Reckless, Abandonment, Campton Gallery, New York, NY.
Arriving at a Landscape, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.
The Here & Now, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
Press
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Born
Vancouver 1973
Selected Corporate Collections
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Toronto, ON • Fraser, Milner & Casgrain LLP, Edmonton, AB • Global Affairs Canada • Manulife Financial, Toronto, ON • Weber Shandwick • Thorn Mark Investments • Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, Canada • Lawson Lundel Lawson • Sutton Place Hotel • Pen-Cor Mortage and Investments • Royal Bank of Canada • Scotia Mcleod • Nordstrom’s, New York City • Liquidity Wines • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto, ON • Vancouver General Hospital • Thornmark Asset Management Inc., Toronto, ON
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 Lightning Running Through,Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
Chain Reaction,Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Assembly,Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2025 Iterations,Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Enfleurage,Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
A Feverish Dream,Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA
No Dress Rehearsal,Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson, WY
2024 A Window or A Mirror, Equinox Gallery, Toronto, ON
Time Flows Through Narrow Spaces, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, Montecito and St. Helena, CA
2023 Winged Victory, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
Partly Truth PArtly Fiction, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2022 Forest for the Trees, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
The After Party, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Between Always and Never, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
Transcribing the Elements, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
2021 The Hard Work of Spring, West Vancouver Art Museum, West Vancouver, BC
Storms & Calm Waters, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
Folding Outwards, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2020 The Tender and the Unnerving, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
Papier Contenporary Art Fair, Montreal
2019 SCOPE Miami, Caldwell Snyder Gallery
Maximalist, Minimalst, Caldwell Snyder Gallery. St. Helena
Fragile State, Equinox Gallery. Vancouver
Harmony Arts Festival, Ferry Building Gallery, Vanouver
Art Toronto
2018 Perception of Sound, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Art Beijing
Art Toronto
2017 An Outline Broken, Cohim Gallery, Beijing, China
Art Toronto, Toronto, CA
Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Impure Crystals, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2016 Bitter Sweet, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
2015 Innocent Disobedience, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Seeds of Rebellion, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.
A Beautiful Rebellion, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
The Quiet Revolution, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
2014 Suspended Between Sweetness & Sorrow, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
Lovely Fugitive, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.
The Lure of Magical Thinking, Bau-Xi, Vancouver, BC.
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
Stories That We Tell, Couture Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden.
2013 Days of Dreams & Visions, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Respire, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Alchemy, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
An Involuntary & Unconscious Memoir, Galerie St. Laurent & Hill, Ottawa, ON.
Eternalism, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA.
2012 Wanton, Wild, Reckless, Abandonment, Campton Gallery, New York, NY.
Arriving at a Landscape, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON.
The Here & Now, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC.
For more than two decades, Bobbie Burgers has developed a distinctive artistic practice rooted in the flower as both subject and metaphor. Largely self-taught, her work has evolved from representational floral painting toward increasingly abstract compositions, expanding the tradition of floral still life through expressive gesture, layered materials, and vibrant color. Drawing inspiration from the traditions of Dutch still life and Chinese painting, Burgers approaches flowers as a means of exploring memory, transformation, and the passage of time.
Flowers have long served as the foundation of Burgers' work, gradually transforming from recognizable botanical forms into expressive fields of color, gesture, and layered media. Rather than a deliberate shift toward abstraction, this evolution has emerged through years of experimentation, repetition, and material exploration. As flowers bloom, fade, and decay, they become powerful metaphors for impermanence, resilience, and the emotional rhythms of human experience.
Central to Burgers' practice is an ongoing cycle of renewal. Paintings generate imagery that is revisited through collage, drawing, and subsequent works, creating a continuous dialogue between past and present. Each composition carries traces of those that came before it, allowing forms, colors, and ideas to evolve organically while balancing delicacy with force, restraint with excess, and beauty with grit.
While rooted in the tradition of floral still life, Burgers both honors and challenges its conventions. Dense layers of paint and collage fragment, enlarge, and obscure familiar forms, revealing flowers not as delicate ornaments but as resilient, unruly, and deeply expressive subjects. As her work has become increasingly abstract, it has also become more open to interpretation, inviting viewers to bring their own memories and emotions to each painting. Rooted in the enduring language of florals yet no longer bound by it, Burgers' paintings embrace beauty not as something fixed or fragile, but as something living, layered, imperfect, and continually evolving.
Burgers lives and works in Vancouver, where she teaches at the Gordon Smith Foundation. Her work has been exhibited internationally at galleries, museums, and art fairs and is represented in numerous public and private collections.
Biography
Press
Upcoming Exhibition: Montecito & St. Helena | September 9 - 30
Opening Reception & Artist Talk | Montecito
Thursday, September 10 | 5 - 7pm
Opening Reception & Artist Talk | St. Helena
Saturday, September 12 | 4 - 6pm
"For much of my career, flowers have been the foundation of my work. They have served as subject, structure, memory, metaphor, and point of departure. Over time, however, the flower has undergone a gradual transformation on the canvas. What began in the recognizable language of floral painting has slowly opened, loosened, and dissolved. Petals have become gestural brushstrokes, stems have become lines, and blooms have become fields of color and layered media. This has never been a sudden turn toward abstraction, but an evolution shaped by years of repetition, material exploration, and an enduring fascination with the imperfect beauty of flowers as they bloom, fade, and decay.
I am drawn to this continual process of transformation because it reflects both the natural world and our own human experience. Through painting, collage, and layering, each work carries traces of those that came before it, evolving through cycles of renewal and change. While my work remains rooted in the tradition of florals, it is no longer bound by it. As the paintings have become more abstract, they have also become more open, inviting viewers to bring their own memories, emotions, and interpretations. I hope these works suggest that beauty is not something fixed or delicate, but something living, layered, imperfect, and constantly becoming." - Bobbie Burgers
Bobbie Burgers
"My story is fragmented, it is up to the viewer to piece it together."
This collection is about nature’s seasonal unfolding. Emotions undergo a similar cycle of highs and lows, whole cycles can start and finish, causing great upheavals.
Upcoming Exhibition: Montecito & St. Helena | September 9 - 30
Opening Reception & Artist Talk | Montecito
Thursday, September 10 | 5 - 7pm
Opening Reception & Artist Talk | St. Helena
Saturday, September 12 | 4 - 6pm
"For much of my career, flowers have been the foundation of my work. They have served as subject, structure, memory, metaphor, and point of departure. Over time, however, the flower has undergone a gradual transformation on the canvas. What began in the recognizable language of floral painting has slowly opened, loosened, and dissolved. Petals have become gestural brushstrokes, stems have become lines, and blooms have become fields of color and layered media. This has never been a sudden turn toward abstraction, but an evolution shaped by years of repetition, material exploration, and an enduring fascination with the imperfect beauty of flowers as they bloom, fade, and decay.
I am drawn to this continual process of transformation because it reflects both the natural world and our own human experience. Through painting, collage, and layering, each work carries traces of those that came before it, evolving through cycles of renewal and change. While my work remains rooted in the tradition of florals, it is no longer bound by it. As the paintings have become more abstract, they have also become more open, inviting viewers to bring their own memories, emotions, and interpretations. I hope these works suggest that beauty is not something fixed or delicate, but something living, layered, imperfect, and constantly becoming." - Bobbie Burgers